OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2012. The newly established State Support Services Center, which started work in the beginning of January, is ready to take over accounting and personnel management tasks of other government agencies.

The center was set up under the auspices of  the Ministry of Finance based on the already existing Courts Accounting Service.

The agency's first client is the Ministry of Justice - the first time that one area of governance provides services to another.

Opening the center is the first step in further centralization of the government's administrative support services, the Finance Ministry said in a statement, noting that this would enable government agencies to focus on their core competencies without having to invest time and funds into developing accounting systems.